At 3/11/05 08:23 AM, Denvish wrote:
In fact, if I push today, I could possibly even make it myself... hmmm, shall I bother?

I know I'll be giving it my best efforts, unfortunately I feel I might fall short. If I make it or not I'll have pulled an all-nighter which would really make me mad if I miss it, but give me a nice jump on Saturday.

Well, today and tomorrow will be my catch up days. The new flash uploadings have got better and Friday will be my chance for over 40 a day. I think I only need around 10 B/P points. Maybe more, but it shouldn't be too hard.

Not see you coming? What are you talking about? I expected you to end up passing me 2 weeks ago. And you never did. And now I've slowed down a ton, and you went and did too. I expect you to pass me when you return to your pace. I mean once you go by I won't have to worry about anyone else for a while, until phileeguy gets to me that is. :/

Days to 50:
238.25 - Kiba-Kamouflage

Haha, I've been so slow lately, I really wish I had time to at least maintain a 70+ b/p pace. ;P

At 3/11/05 03:00 PM, Sneakeh wrote:
Hmm, that Thobbe sure is mysterious.
What do you guys know about him?

heh, I was very close yesterday. I'm now on top of this list, what do i win? :P
Stormwarden and lightning are obviously my next targets but I'm currently 1000 b/p pts behind them so I will only get the rank-up during the next week. It will take at least a week and 1-2 days before I pass another slow user. :(

This is gonna kill me. I'm currently 23 short of a star and I honestly don't think it's gonna happen unless we get a good amount of new submissions just after midnight.

Denvish was ahead of me at the beginning of the day, and I'm pretty sure he would've added to his constellation as today was a pretty good day. Alas I triple checked and as of now I think he's 81 short.

At 3/11/05 11:52 PM, phileeguy wrote:
Denvish was ahead of me at the beginning of the day, and I'm pretty sure he would've added to his constellation as today was a pretty good day. Alas I triple checked and as of now I think he's 81 short.

Yeah, I got blown out of the star race when my internet died for 3 hours peak time last night. I'm guessing Red-Nose Day had something to do with the downtime.
Not really that bothered, I wasn't expecting a star this week anyway ;)

The EGRL posting will be late today. I've been up since 6am Friday and, being quite toasty, there's no way I'll make it through the posting without making significant errors. I had hoped I'd still be sufficiently coherent to get it done, but figured that, worst case, I would at least be up late enough to have the stat pull done on time. Worst case is apparently how it goes. Stat pull is being done now and I'll get the data put through after I regain co0nsciousness. If you're looking for someone at fault, I say blame Nicole. Normally she's my barmaid, but tonight she was on this side of the bar and bought me drinks all night ;)

12 March:Big grats out to Nijsse on becoming out most recent Supreme Commander. Well done and ... "it's about fucking time." Apparently he's still out cebreluting teh *hic* akermplishhhh, accumpli, acka, acka um goal, as he is presently stopped at 30k. Nice ratio =)

With that, we seem to have exhausted our upper end rank-ups for a bit. Although Hypocrite (nee iamnone) is within range of making it to SC next week, he'll probably take 2. Although both chaotic and moongod are closer, their, "whenever" attitude makes it more like that j00bie will beat them to it in ~4 weeks. j00bie? Yes, j00bie (nee SevenStar). He and SevenStar have switched profiles set-ups to try and sow confusion ... just ignore it. Anywho, that's about it on the 5% VP bonus, while on the 7% front, it looks like Bonus will be the next full General in 3 weeks, 4 if he slacks off a bit. At pace, yaya12 should make it about the same time and, beyond them, that appears to be about it for the next couple of months.

Two site notes:

1) MPA is fairly convinced that he had the top pace overall for last year, and with Denvish' reappearance only occurring in October of last year, he has a reasonable case for it. The debate over that should be settled in three months. Although the first posting of the EGRL was on 20 June, 2003, the first posting which included the Top 50 was on 26 June. By chance, 2004 had a full posting on 26 June here. One of my (too damned many) projects has been to construct a set of spreadsheets referencing against those two postings, each of which has their own set of issues. The 2003 post was in thread (so was without profile links), and it's now a matter of following the breadcrumbs to their current name so I can do a stat pull correctly. The 2004 post is easier in that regard, but has 4 times as many people for me to enter. I'll have both ready for an anniversary posting ... sort of a "where are they now" kind of thing.

2)I made a slight tweak to the way in which I do (and timing of) the rank-up posting, which saves me ~20 minutes of screwing around with them. From here on out rank-ups within a given rank will not be listed alphabetically, but by total BPs. Chances are that this also reflects the order in which people obtained the rank-up since the preceding update, so works out just as well as alphabetizing.

On the Top 50 front, welcome back to QuikFox and farwell to LockClock. Given the paces, despite the clustering around 20,500, no one appears to be in danger of slipping. The next contender is SevenStar (see above), who is still 2 weeks+ off make it. More liekly closer to 3, as Toocool and company swarm past Mr_Snrub. staphita, -Mazza-, carmel, and -Gooch- could all be the "next" person in (or back in as the case may be) depending upon who gets and stays motivated, but it will take ~3-5 weeks for that to sort out. 3 if Gooch maintains his pace, longer if he slows down or if anyone else decides to jump into the mix. Good Luck!!

At 3/12/05 07:32 PM, D0GMA wrote:
1) MPA is fairly convinced that he had the top pace overall for last year, and with Denvish' reappearance only occurring in October of last year, he has a reasonable case for it.

I have no doubt about it. Even since my return, he's been close behind me most weeks, so over the entire year, I'm sure he has no competition pace-wise

Despite a rather poor submission rate this week, two people still managed to maintain a star pace and *gasp* neither of them is Denvish:
MPA 147.57/day
phileeguy 145.29/day

lol. Thought I'd give the slackers a chance to shine ;D

Denvish 133.14/day

Reasonable enough. Hopefully the coming week will start off a little better.

The next contender is SevenStar (see above), who is still 2 weeks+ off make it. More liekly closer to 3, as Toocool and company swarm past Mr_Snrub. staphita, -Mazza-, carmel, and -Gooch- could all be the "next" person in (or back in as the case may be) depending upon who gets and stays motivated, but it will take ~3-5 weeks for that to sort out. 3 if Gooch maintains his pace, longer if he slows down or if anyone else decides to jump into the mix. Good Luck!!

Let the games begin. :)

It's really going to get interesting fast in this situation. My Spring Break is two weeks away, and with no plans as of yet, it might just take that minimum window of three weeks for me to get there. We'll have to see how that goes. If all goes really well, I might have a really slight chance of leaping Sevenstar (aka j00bie) before he/she makes it into the top 50, but I can't say everything will go well. We will see how this interesting race pans out. :)

Heh it looks like yaya's closed into 1000 on me, i guess that means that indeed he'll be beating me, whatver ^.^, it's alright when he finally does, he's the best there is, and to lose to the best, is fine with me, nice to see i'll be ahead of rabin though :)

JUST MAYBE a race with Me to XkwiziTOnE (heh i just realized the name was exquisite one :P) is in order as well, either way, thanks for the update as always d0gma, you've always been basically my favorite user ^.^

The Truth.
but seriously why is this shit still only 3 lines shit used to be 5 lines, HOW MUCH MORE FUCKIN BANDWIDTH WAS THAT TOM, HOW MUCH? Also, hot rosalina porn link ;D

At 3/12/05 07:32 PM, D0GMA wrote:
1) MPA is fairly convinced that he had the top pace overall for last year, and with Denvish' reappearance only occurring in October of last year, he has a reasonable case for it.

I have no doubt about it. Even since my return, he's been close behind me most weeks, so over the entire year, I'm sure he has no competition pace-wise

That's my feeling as well. He was 1st on pace for most of the year, and pretty close to it when he wasn't. If it was for the calendar year there wouldn't even be a question. Since I'll only be measuring June-June, you still might give him some competition, as last year you only "missed" on ~3 months. Ya_Ya made his account in July, otherwise he'd definitely be up there as well.

Reasonable enough. Hopefully the coming week will start off a little better.

We shall see =)

At 3/12/05 07:42 PM, phileeguy wrote:
I couldn't have came away after my Spring Break empty handed. Gah, I was only 16 short of the Rank-up when you did the stat pull, guess I'll have to wait 'til next weekend.
Thanks for the update.

No problem ... now just slow down so you don't pass me =)

Now, onto the important question... how did it go with Nicole?

As well as can be expected, I suppose. I met her back in June last year at the pub, before she started working there. She and her friends were a little out of their league when they started trying to debate politics with me.

At one point that night she, facetiously, asked me, "really, what difference in the world can one person make?" I spent ~10 minutes running a few dozen scenarios through my head before concluding that, "the most effect any one person could have would be for an American, and known by that nationality, prefereably one either already in or recently discharged from the US military, to kill the prime minister of Pakistan and escape back to the US." Aziz is the most pro-American (if anyone can truly be in one state's upper echelons of government and be for another state's government) of their government, and Musharraf (Pakistani President) would be forced to take a hard anti-US stance in the fall-out over it, as well as coalescing even more moderate Islamic factions around the world against US involvement anywhere. Yes, these are the kinds of things that rattle around in the back of my head, even when I'm out relaxing with a drink in hand.

Anywho, things just were never the same afterwards. I couldn't tell if it was the answer was what shocked her, that some random person she had just met could think up something like that, or what, but it's only been this past calendar year that she's been going out of her way to make small talk (and make sure it stays small lol). ~shrug~ we'll see. This was her way of (re)breaking the ice, so I guess I'm going to have to go out again tonight and see what happens ;)

At 3/12/05 07:46 PM, Inuzuka-Kiba wrote:
Haha, best late update ever. Seems 2 people will pass me this week. I'll need to find a way to pass Shoupiten and Jen to maintain my spot. Damn, that sucks. :'(

I hope it's just one and that one iz meh =) If you keep a good pace this week I doubt I can close the gap, since I'll need 500 + whatever you get this week.

At 3/12/05 07:50 PM, -Gooch- wrote:
We will see how this interesting race pans out. :)

That we shall. I'm always hesitant to make any predictions past 2 weeks, just because of random things affecting other people, like vacations and such. Even within that time frame it's still just a "best guess" lol

At 3/12/05 07:54 PM, BonusStage wrote:
Heh it looks like yaya's closed into 1000 on me, i guess that means that indeed he'll be beating me, whatver ^.^

When I was first writing that up I thought it was just going to be you, then went back and looked it over again. You and yaya are going to be close, but I think you'll make General first. Don't let me down =)

At 3/12/05 09:31 PM, Professor_Rhythm wrote:
what the fuck? you like...just updated this and I've got 8,249 on the list, yet I've got 8,359 now. A slight anomally!?!?!?

The pulls that d0gma used were from earlier. The stats were pulled at the correct time, yet the posting on the site was delayed due to d0gma being worn out. So you've just gotten a lot of b/p today and the list was posted late.

At 3/12/05 09:33 PM, Inuzuka-Kiba wrote:
The pulls that d0gma used were from earlier. The stats were pulled at the correct time, yet the posting on the site was delayed due to d0gma being worn out. So you've just gotten a lot of b/p today and the list was posted late.

So I've got a hell of a lot to rest on as a pace booster is what you're saying? Banging, I'm gonna try for a 70+.

At 3/12/05 09:43 PM, D0GMA wrote:
The pull was done on time, the posting of it was late and was what I was warning people about ... that the data would be right, you just won't be seeing it until evening.

Yes, normally the minimum requirement for me to do a stat pull on people is that you get 40+ during the preceding week, but it's my list and I'll check Vagrant2 every day if I bloody well feel like it. Besides, having stalled myself 5 short of ornery_scotsman, I knew today was going to be a hysterically high Pace when I passed him and got the average from huge Kiba/ornery gap as my new "total" ... I just didn't think it was going to be this much.

I didn't set up the Races section before I went out, and I'm a little too skizzled to take care of it now. No free drinks tonight ... guess it was my turn to buy ;) Anywho, I'll get that set up later (evening) today and it will be in the mini starting again tomorrow.

You "detectives" out there need to get to work, as my comments yesterday are more than sufficient information and both Toocool and j00bie bailed out (in under 10 minutes no less) with the exact same comment, "I have a headache." The bad part of it is that Toocool got so flustered that, when he got the blam movie, he thought that meant he got the blam point as well, and quit the net entirely. I checked, which is why I felt free to laugh at him, but I don't think he saw the humour at the time. Anyway, based on that post Shar took 4 googles, while I took 8 (pretending I didn't know) to find my full name. Happy hunting =) As for me, I stumbled across some things about my sister that I didn't know while googling, so I've got my own set of investergationings to do ;)

WTF nothing. Try reading the comments I wrote up right above the Pace section and using your noggin. All Vagrant BPs are calculated based on the average of the BP totals of the person above and below. Ya think that might be why, on a one day average it ends in .50.

The Kiba/ornery gap was 564 this morning. Any "gain" Vagrant2 shows higher than half the above rate tomorrow, a third of it on Monday, etc., is going to be strictly due to Kiba and ornery gaining BPs. "Best" case I'll get past Shpouiten (Kiba will probably pass him before I pass Kiba) on Wednesday, so the average will continue to drop at least until then.